Recent content by TheRatmeister

This is an astonishingly small market. According to the Fall 2024 passenger counts, about 110 passengers per day boarding outbound between Wyoming Hill and North Wilmington. There's definitely an argument that this number could increase with better service, but if that ever happened you could...

I can't find the RFP right now, but MassDOT is looking at employing an external consultant to review the effectiveness of the TMA grant program.

I believe so, but that doesn't seem to have rolled out to the passenger counts when I last checked.

For anyone looking to explore the data themselves

Correct, it's self reported with seemingly minimal filtering. That's why I included it more as a bonus, the results are a bit silly and pointless since lots of things are near but not quite zero. I don't want to immediately say they are wrong, it is possible for example the RL was suspended...

I'm not aware of any publicly available ridership figures. The GL cars don't have APCs so it's entirely dependent on fare validations, a... deeply flawed method in the case of the GL.

From /r/Boston, if anybody wants to make some Red Line pillows, rugs, bags, anything really, now is a good time.

I'm back with more trivia, this time from the 2025 MBTA Passenger Survey. For each of the following access modes, which subway (Red/Green/Blue/Orange lines) station got the largest proportion of its riders from that mode? Modes: Walking Bike/Scooter/Micromobility Carpooled or dropped off...

My personal urban design preference is for stadiums to anchor shopping/recreational areas, similar to Patriot Place, but located just outside the urban core so the noise from games/concerts/events isn't disturbing residents. Bijlmer Arena in Amsterdam is a good example. By this metric, the...

It's been on and off for me, it was quick last night but then this morning it's been struggling again.

I don't get what's surprising. United's thing is that they are much more willing to take risks on routes with the goal of being the first and only airline to fly them when there isn't enough demand for another airline come in later.

The same reason it's not shown as one color in Munich, it's because it's a collection of services with distinct endpoints that, for the most part, only share relatively short sections. (Although with the service pattern I described it's not that short.)

I've been to Munich, and I think it's a good parallel, and also demonstrates why I don't think giving the regional rail and subway lines equal thickness is actually reasonable. In the central tunnel S-Bahn trains come every ~2 minutes, it's the most frequent rail line in the city. Outside the...